Head Of Rice
Ear Of Rice
noun
A head of plant of a rice plant is the head of rice or ear of rice.
This word uses kun'yomi readings for 稲 (いな) and 穂 (ほ). You may not be familiar with the いな reading yet, but it appears in a lot of compounds that use 稲, so it's good to know. Here's a mnemonic to help:
To get a big head of rice on your rice plant, have it eat nachos (いな). Not literally, of course, but like… give it some nacho fertilizer. If you let rice plants eat nacho (fertilizer), you'll have the biggest, most high-yielding heads of rice ever.
お米は私達の主食ですが、だからといって日本人全員が風に靡く美しい金色の稲穂を見た事がある訳ではありません。
Rice is our staple food, but that doesn't mean all Japanese people have seen beautiful, golden ears of rice bowing in the breeze.